Urban Regeneration MSc

This MSc addresses the challenges of places in need of rejuvenation, reinvention or complete restructuring in the wake of changes to the functioning of contemporary urban environments. From single buildings to neighbourhoods, towns, and whole cities, urban areas go through cycles of growth and decline, periodic regeneration in whole or in part is inevitable. Drawing on theory and practice, you will learn how and to what extent the governance, planning, design, and management of the built environment can help to regenerate ‘places in need’, with what resources (human, financial and governmental) and with what consequences for communities and citizens.

You will acquire the latest knowledge of the social, economic, environmental and design issues involved in regenerating urban areas and you will gain a case-based, multidisciplinary experience of real urban regeneration schemes. Through a combination of lectures, seminars, group work, site visits, and talks from cutting-edge practitioners, the programme will develop your creative and critical thinking as well as your problem-solving abilities. As a result, you will gain the ability to analyse complex urban issues, the insight needed to address those issues in an original and innovative manner, and the knowledge to turn those ideas into appropriate and feasible regeneration strategies.